We spoke about this project during the session – feel free to refer to that. We spoke specifically about the length of piers creating friction against the sand / soil – rather than by contact with bedrock. The main aspect suggested then was the contrast between creating a fleeting structure that will sink (although it would be useful to think about the community, not just thinking about this fleeting beauty as a self-congratulatory project, so perhaps framing the impermanence as having some value to the community, either through re-location to a different site or as a celebration of its community ties – don’t forget the programme of the proposal is not a dwelling but more like a ritual space for the community), or a floating structure that can deal with the instability of the soil in a different way.
The project could instead be more speculative and have a premise such as – what is the number of pilotis / length of them to be created to create a space that will not sink? Or that will sink indefinitely but only in differential increments so it is not perceivable – or only after many many years. Is the plant material available on the site to make this happen? If we keep going with this idea of the infinitely frictional pilotis, can you increase their surface area – for example bundling together bits of bamboo, as in Ludvig’s image of the re-created Greek temple – and therefore exponentially increase the friction and infinitely delay the sinking?
We spoke about this project during the session – feel free to refer to that. We spoke specifically about the length of piers creating friction against the sand / soil – rather than by contact with bedrock. The main aspect suggested then was the contrast between creating a fleeting structure that will sink (although it would be useful to think about the community, not just thinking about this fleeting beauty as a self-congratulatory project, so perhaps framing the impermanence as having some value to the community, either through re-location to a different site or as a celebration of its community ties – don’t forget the programme of the proposal is not a dwelling but more like a ritual space for the community), or a floating structure that can deal with the instability of the soil in a different way.
The project could instead be more speculative and have a premise such as – what is the number of pilotis / length of them to be created to create a space that will not sink? Or that will sink indefinitely but only in differential increments so it is not perceivable – or only after many many years. Is the plant material available on the site to make this happen? If we keep going with this idea of the infinitely frictional pilotis, can you increase their surface area – for example bundling together bits of bamboo, as in Ludvig’s image of the re-created Greek temple – and therefore exponentially increase the friction and infinitely delay the sinking?